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To: zax who wrote (919053)	2/3/2016 9:36:25 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1573921

but we are at full employment by according to most economists definition A meaningless definition as I have shown. and President Obama got us here No he hasn't. I'm not talking here about the fact that the unemployment rate by itself is vastly over rated as a measure of employment (an employment rate, the percentage of the population employed, and perhaps a secondary figures of the percentage of the working age population that is employed, would be better), but rather that Obama didn't cause the unemployment rate to improve the way it did. A normal recovery would have got us to the current unemployment rate (with a higher workforce participation rate and greater total employment numbers), quicker then the recovery we actually had.